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Cedar Creek, Arizona

12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1954 and the latest in 1992. It stands in the Fort Apache census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85941. It lies near Big Canyon. The Survey maps it on the Cedar Creek quadrangle. 372 people lived here at the 2020 count. It stands 4,928 feet above sea level.

Cedar Creek within Gila County

Population over time

2 figures

Cedar Creek grew from 318 to 372 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate, and an estimate published within five years of a census is left out. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

YearPeople Change
2010318
2020372+54 (+17%)

Topographic sheets covering this place

8 surveys from 12 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

85 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 85 fires within 5 miles of Cedar Creek between 1992 and 2019, burning about 5,659 acres in total. 42 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural42
Arson/incendiarism14
Debris and open burning13
Smoking6
Missing data/not specified/undetermined4
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
8 September 2009Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFort Apache AgencyTRASHTRUCK
3 September 1997Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyHWY 60 TAN
28 September 1994Smokingunder an acreFort Apache AgencyMP 315
1 September 2019Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyBIG CANYON
29 August 2006Naturalunder an acreFort Apache AgencyBIG CANYON
29 August 1994Naturalunder an acreFort Apache Agencynot named
24 August 1993Debris and open burningunder an acreFort Apache Agencynot named
20 August 1993Naturalunder an acreFort Apache Agencynot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Gila County

Mines and quarries near this place

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Cedar Creek: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gypsum-Anhydrite. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Fort ApacheGypsum-AnhydritePast ProducerSedimentary
Middle and East Cedar CreeksGypsum-AnhydriteOccurrenceGypsum

Every working recorded in Gila County

Storms near this place

12 since 2003

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Cedar Creek in 12 storm reports between 2003 and 2023: 9 flash flood, 1 wildfire, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2023Flash FloodCedar Creek-The stream gauge on White River (WHTA3) near Ft Apache showed a 400 CFS spike.
August 2021Flash FloodCedar Creek-A video showed a significant rise of water flowing through the wash.
July 2018Flash FloodCedar Creek-Cedar Creek had a 5 foot rise below the Cedar Fire scar after a thunderstorm dropped heavy rain over the area. The water was receding by 329 PM.
July 2017Flash FloodCedar Creek-Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar caused flash flooding in Cedar Creek. The gauge at Highway 73 peaked at 6 feet and was receding at 300 PM MST.
July 2017Flash FloodCedar Creek-Cedar Creek rose 8 feet at the Highway 73 Bridge after a thunderstorm dropped heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar (June 2016).
July 2017Flash FloodCedar Creek-Cedar Creek was flowing at a gauge height of 8 feet at the bridge on Highway 73 at 1600.
July 2017Flash FloodCedar Creek-Heavy rain fell over the Cedar Fire scar and produced flash flooding. The White Mountain Apache Emergency Manager observed 5 feet of water in Cedar Creek with a notable in just 10 minutes. Carrizo Creek had 2.5 feet of water flowing.
August 2016Flash FloodCedar Creek-Heavy rain over the Cedar Fire scar caused flash flooding in Cedar Creek. The water over topped the K-rails that were put in place after the fire to prevent flood damage.
August 2016Heavy RainCedar Creek-Radar estimated up to 1.60 inches of rain over the Turkey Track drainage. A 3 to 4 foot rise was observed downstream on Cedar Creek at the Highway 73 bridge in the community of Cedar Creek. Time is an estimate.
August 2016Flash FloodCedar Creek-An 8 foot rise in water was reported at the bridge in Cedar Creek.
July 2003HailCedar Creek-A National Forest Service employee reported golf ball sized hail near Cedar Creek along Highway 73. A clogged culvert caused the hail to accumulate to a depth of over six feet in a stream bed under Highway 73.
July 2003WildfireCedar Creek-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Gila County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Cedar Creek Crossing2.5 miles12
Carrizo9.1 miles12
Canyon Day10.9 miles12
Fort Apache Junction11.7 miles12
Black River Crossing12.8 miles13
Seneca20.4 miles18
Sawmill22.5 miles12
Chrysotile23.4 miles15

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Cedar CreekAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q5759915The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 2619. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.

Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.